Resisting Slavery

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Taking a Closer look at how slaves rebelledThe Resistance Grows...Slave Codes: Which rules are real?What was Slavery Really Like?A Slave can not hit a White person, even in self defense.TrueSlaves could not own or sell land.TrueNo Woman Slave can Cut her hair upon punishment of 15 lashes with the whipFalse!No slave Child Under 12 Can Talk to a White personFalse!A White person could spend 6 months in prison for hiring a slave as a store clerk.True!True!!False!If a White person murders a slave they will not be punished and the police will act as though it never happenedTrueIt is prohibited for slaves to sing songs of any kind while working in the fieldsFalseHow Did Slaves Resist These Laws?Refused to Obey ownersWorked SlowlyEducated themselvesSome Important Rebellions...Nat Turner Rebellion:

La Amistad Rebellion:Nat Turner was caught and hungShot and clubbed over 60 Whites to deathRebellion on a Slave Ship!Slaves took control of Spanish shipTried to have ship sailed back to AfricaSpanish captains sail ship into US portSlaves taken prisoner in U.S.Africans won in both the district court and the Supreme Court!!!The Underground Railroad40,000-100,000 people escaped!!Free African Americans1 out of 9 African Americans were FreeBlacks could be recaptured or accused of being a slaveLife still was not easy!Resistance Leads to More Conflict...Slave Codes --> What were they?Nat Turner was a slave from VAHe began believing he was receiving messages from God telling him to rebellAugust 1831: led a group of slaves into his master's house...At 2:00am Turner's group of slaves went into his master's house and killed the entire family as they were sleepingThey then left and went through town killing all white people they encountered and gaining more slaves Eventually, whites overpowered Turner's groupAlmost 200 black men and women were murdered after this attack...most had nothing to do with the rebellion!January 1839: 53 Africans are captured by Spanish slave traders and put on ship called La Amistad. Slaves said that since they were free in Africa, and since the Spanish slave traders kidnapped them, and since the slave trade was illegal in NY they should be freedruled that the slaves were free men, and ordered them released from prison. He also ordered that the United States government transport them back to Africa.